Elusive RSS

When I first started aggregating blog feeds to make it easier to keep up with my favorite blogs, I often had trouble finding the correct subscription address.  This was complicated by Pluck.  I was using an early version of it and when I would click on a link to someone’s RSS feed, Pluck would feel obliged to launch and complicate matters, since I didn’t want to store the feed in Pluck.

Over time, as Pluck matured and became a stable tool, I came to rely on it to help me find elusive RSS feeds.  I would then copy the address into my NetNewsWire Lite.  This has worked well for the past year. 

Now I am having troubles again.  Numerous times in the past week I’ve wanted to subscribe to the feeds on new blogs, but haven’t been able to get the real feed URL.  The one that Pluck gives me doesn’t work in NetNewsWIre.  I tried using the Live Bookmark feature in Firefox instead, but that was no better. I tried finding it using Flock, a web browser designed to play nicely with social web technologies, but that isn’t working either. 

I thought it might be a problem with NetNewsWire Lite.  In the forums I see people are having trouble with the latest version- it isn’t always updating feeds.  However, I  see no mention of my particular problem, and my feeds seem to be refreshing just fine.

I’m wondering if some of the problem is arising from new bloggers using templates with built in feed links.  It may be that they haven’t activated the RSS feed feature.  I’m especially having trouble with Edublogger blog feeds, which would make sense as new teachers, not familiar with RSS, make their first attempts at blogging.

Is anyone else having this problem lately?  Anyone found a solution? I’d love to hear about it.

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